NBA: Lin-Sanity Reaches OKC
The Jeremy Lin phenomenon has come to Oklahoma City.
Of course, it arrived about three or four years ago.
Just ask Oliver Ting.
“It was hard to find a Harvard game that aired, but I’ve been following him since he was there,” he said of Lin’s college days. “I looked up to him.
“He was sort of my hero even way before the savior of New York.”
Ting is one of eight basketball players at Classen High School who is Asian-American. I had a chance to talk with all eight of them yesterday for a column that will be posted on NewsOK.com later today and will appear in The Oklahoman tomorrow.
It was fascinating discussing Lin-Sanity with them. A couple of the guys weren’t aware of Lin until he started his NBA career — unceremoniously, many of them added, having been dropped by Golden State and Houston before sticking in New York — but most have paid attention to him since his college days.
I don’t want to tell you everything that’s coming in the column, but you’ll want to check it out.
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Good luck to Oliver Ting! J. Lin is great for pro basketball! What a fantastic role model he is. He is humble, has a smile on his face and gives his teammates and coaches all the credit, not to mention he is religious, which we would all like to see more of from our athlete idols.
All I can say is “Just Lin Baby”!!!